Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1875 — ITEMS OF INTEREST. [ARTICLE]

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Chairs and sofas stuffed with aromatic herbs, “ which fill the air with an agreeable, bat not too powerful, perfume,” is the latest Parisian folly. In excavating for ore at Salisbury, Conn., the other day, the workmen found a layer of frost, two inches thick, fourteen feet below the surface. “ Don’t you think things look, blue ?’ said a man to Spilkins yesterday. “ That’s just azure inclined to look at them,” replied the Jncorrigible Leander. Roederer said a “ constitution should be short,” and he would have added “clear,” but Talleyrand interrupted and said: “ Yes, short and obscure.” That name is “Herzegovina,” and if you hear a newsboy crying out: “Awl abawt the Hearsagovineyard war!” you may know that he means well enough. Has anybody ever explained why a young man who is going to be married invariably casts a gloom over the occasion by having his hair cut, and short? An Emperor respectfully asking a Parliament to give him a vacation for eighteen months, as just seen in Brazil, is preeminently a nineteenth-century spectacle. Never speak harshly to a hack-driver. Though he may not be an orphan, he will answer you in language so meek and gracious as to make you feel ashamed of yourself. - Napoleon IV., like other modern Princes, is going to take a tour round the world. He cannot take one of his papa’s iron-clads for the purpose,' however, for several reasons.

A law in Nebraska requires every business firm to register its name and kind of business, and the name of each member of the firm, with the County Clerk, under penalty of SI,OOO fine. The managers of a New York cemetery recently gave an excursion to a lot of jovial undertakers. This is getting the popular weakness down among the dead men with a vengeance. A seven-year-old girl of Westfield, Vt., weighs 111 pounds, measures three feet six inches around the waist, thirtysix inches around the chest mid twenty-two inches around the head. East Rock, whieh overhangs a number of cottages near Great Barrington, Mass, is "'Bo shaky in its balance that the cottagers are imploring Government to protect the weaker from the bowlder. Dr. Gustine, of Hanover, N. H., has been taken to the asylum as hopelessly insane. The developments of his malady were peculiar. He went about the street blanketing all the horses he found. The good boy who goes heme and tells his mother how he rebuked his companion for robbing birds’ nests will perhaps pass the p&ntry twenty times that very day —and still find it locked. How ignorant parents are, and how little they understand their children I